He attended elementary school, gymnasium and theological studies in Zadar.
[3] In 1857, he started to lecture at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zadar, where he taught the Old Testament[2] and Oriental languages from 1862 until 1866f and church history and canon law from 1866 until 1873.
[4] Since September 1878, the magazine had bilingual title La Dalmazia cattolica - Katolička Dalmacija.
[5] The magazine had a religious-political profile and became the most significant Catholic voice in Dalmatia.
[3] As a papal visitor, he officially visited the Franciscan parishes and monasteries in Herzegovina between 1878 and 1879, after which he went to Vienna and Rome, to inform the Austrian-Hungarian government and the Pope about his findings.